Comic Title: Adventures of Superman #460
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: November 1989
On Sale Date: September 26, 1989 Shipping Date September 26, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #171

Shipping Date September 28, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #9

Direct Market Date September 28, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #115, #116, #118

Copyright Date September 26, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Carlin

Title: "Be It Ever So Deadly"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer/Penciller: Dan Jurgens
Inker: Andy Kubert
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Glenn Whitmore

Reprinted In:
Superman:Eradication (The Origin of the Eradicator) TPB (1996)
Superman:The Exile & Other Stories Omnibus HC (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Superman #37; next appearance in Doom Patrol #29)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Superman #37; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #461)
• Colin Thornton (publisher of Newstime Magazine; name spelled Collin in this story; first appearance; next appearance in Superman #38)
• Perry White (last appearance in Superman #36; next appearance in Action Comics #648)

Villain(s)

• A group of whalers (no further appearances)
• Eradicator (last appearance in Action Comics #646; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #461)
• Kryptonian robots (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Marty and Peters (last appearance in Action Comics #646; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #461)
• Kem-L and Fen-M (in Superman's vision of the past; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Jimmy Olsen (in flashback)
• The Cleric (in flashback)

Synopsis:
Shortly after Clark Kent arrives for work at the Daily Planet, he is overcome by a terrible headache. He believes the Eradicator is responsible. He flies to Antarctica where he discovers a Fortress being constructed. The construction is conducted by robots of Kryptonian design and two human researchers, whom the Eradicator has enslaved.

Superman tries to order the Eradicator to desist, but the work continues. When Superman lashes out and tries to attack, the Eradicator takes defensive measures. It quickly overcomes Superman. Later, Clark Kent returns home to Metropolis, seemingly unconcerned with the happenings in Antarctica.